You'll be shipping less code really. When you're compiling a nested script it's having to inline essentially duplicate those selectors however any layers deep there are and that's not nothing for sure. colors inside of SAS were a huge thing. Once they are supported in all the browsers this is not really something you could I guess you could polyfill it with JavaScript but it's not something you can compile away.
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott go through all the features of Sass and decide where we are at with Native CSS alternatives, giving each feature a rating of replaceable, plausible, or missing.
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